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What is really happening to freedom
Posted by James Gubb in Civil Liberty on 26/03/2007
With great fanfare the BBC has launched a prime time documentary called The Trap – What Happened to our Dream of Freedom. It is the usual bravely radical, groundbreaking BBC stuff of course. In other words it is full of soft left clichés recycled from the heyday of collectivism, writes Graham Cunningham.
I was reminded of that 1960’s folk music ditty Little Boxes, popularised by Pete Seeger. Older readers may remember it. Here are a few snatches from memory:
And the people on the box
All went to the university,
Where they ticked all the trendy boxes
And they came out all the same,
And there’s teachers and film directors,
And tv executives,
And they’re all full of radical-chic tacky
And they all think just the same.
OK I confess. I might have changed the words a bit!
